Middle School (6–8)

Sara Hanson is a public artist and cast metal sculptor who brings accessible, customized, and hands-on arts learning experiences to learners of all ages and skill levels. She has worked in many different community and classroom settings. Her portable sculpture foundry allows participants to engage in the entire cast metal process from start to finish [...]

Sandy Spieler is a sculptor, painter, graphic artist, performer, director, teacher, activist, and perpetual student. Her work includes tiny puppet shows, main stage productions, public art commissions, streetscape designs, residencies/collaborations in communities, schools and universities locally, nationally and internationally. She is passionate about work For the Water and the reparation of our world, and constantly [...]

Roshan is unavailable for bookings until mid-July 2026 Roshan Ganu is a multimedia narrative artist originally from Goa-India, now based in Minneapolis. As a part of her narrative work she makes comics, cartoons about her surroundings, and also builds multimedia installations, based on what the story/concept demands. She is the recipient of the Next Step [...]

I help students create theater using masks, folktales, and myths from around the world. We create joyous original work that explores any one of hundreds of themes—weather, Greek myth, why stories, The Hero’s Journey, the rainforest, constellations….. I draw on my travels to India (twice), China (5 times), Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Borneo, and Mexico for [...]

Raki is a first generation American, queer, Jewish writer. She is the author of The Things You Left and The Memory House, both Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her longform poetry chapbook, The Other Body, was published in 2017, and her stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications and have been shortlisted and nominated for [...]

Experience the dance, music, and culture of India with Ragamala Dance Company, and enrich multiple areas of your curriculum—dance, music, world cultures, diversity—with this nationally renowned ensemble! Ragamala Dance Company is driven by the artistic vision of mother-daughters Ranee Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy, and Ashwini Ramaswamy. By creating original, multi-disciplinary dance works rooted in the South [...]

Pooja Goswami Pavan, Ph.D., is a Hindustani (North Indian classical) vocalist, composer, teacher and scholar, whose silky, yet strong voice has the ability to move effortlessly in three octaves. Her deep and extensive training in the traditional Hindustani idiom by several masters has allowed her to broaden her ability to sing and teach a wide [...]